On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:24:02AM +0200, Sebastian Sp?th wrote: > Brandon schrieb: > > > > > Actualy, this brings me to something I was thinking about > > > a while back. Right now, a person downloading a freesite must > > > make a seperate request for every image on the site. This could > > > be improved by putting an entire freesite (or a chunk of one > > > if it's really big) in a .tar.gz, with files being extracted from > > > the tarball as needed, instead of going out and requesting something > > > new each time. > > > > The same effect could be achieved by adding prefetching to FProxy. > > Prefetching is one argument that was used in the mozilla development as > well, saying that it would speed up web browsing. There were a couple of > semi academical arguments which basically said, that by needlessly > prefetching about (let's just assume) 90% of the content, people will be > clogging all bandwidth away, thus decreasing the overall surfing speed. > > I guess the same argument applies against prefetching in this case.
Not to mention the artificial effects on file popularity ;) -- # tavin cole # # "The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, # a continual flight from wonder." # - Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl >From - Sun May 6 15:05:21 2001 Return-Path: <devl-admin at freenetproject.org> Received: from hawk.freenetproject.org (postfix@[4.18.42.11]) by funky.danky.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA24696 for <danello at danky.com>; Fri, 4 May 2001 03:01:48 -0400 Received: from hawk.freenetproject.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hawk.freenetproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 348045805C; Fri, 4 May 2001 00:42:03 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: devl at freenetproject.org Received: from moe.cc.utexas.edu (moe.cc.utexas.edu [128.83.42.2]) by hawk.freenetproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B995A5803F for <devl at freenetproject.org>; Fri, 4 May 2001 00:41:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (blanu at localhost) by moe.cc.utexas.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/cc-uts-client-1.11) with ESMTP id CAA02741 for <devl at freenetproject.org>; Fri, 4 May 2001 02:37:01 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: moe.cc.utexas.edu: blanu owned process doing -bs From: Brandon <[email protected]> X-X-Sender: <blanu at moe.cc.utexas.edu> To: <devl at freenetproject.org> Subject: Re: [freenet-devl] Problem with IndexClient design In-Reply-To: <20010504001702.C659 at execpc.com> Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.33.0105040235500.2468-100000 at moe.cc.utexas.edu>
